For reasons (d) other I'm in Cambridge for a couple of days and brought most of my gear with me to do some painting. I forgot the kitchen roll and...
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RIP Jazzy John Romita Snr, 1930–2023
Jerry Garcia And Bob Weir, Copenhagen 1972
With all this coloured pencil jamming I've been doing lately, I've been playing a lot of Grateful Dead. YouTube has obviously gotten wind of this,...
All Saints’ Church, Cambridge
It got to about half past five tonight, and after starting out thinking I was having a day off, I thought I might make a start on a coloured pencil...
Key Man
Lots of old keys laying around the house after getting all the doors and windows replaced, so I glued a load of them together just for the hell of...
VNixie
I'm taking it a bit easy today, just going for a quick figure painting with the inktense pencils. I swear I must take almost as long choosing a...
Church Of San Pedro De Atacama, Chile
Another watercolour today. Here was my line of thinking: - lots of recent paintings have been in the key of orange cool: Duane Allman, I Can Read...
A Moment At Stonehenge
It was supposed to be the start of the big heatwave today but for most if the day it's been exactly the opposite. For the first time since I had...
Contemporary Watercolour On The Go, Marion Rivolier – Book Review
Now this is a book I've had my eye on for a while. It's been up near the top of my Amazon wishlist and every time I've looked at the list I've...
Egyptian Sorcery
Just a quick one today. I had that one crackle pasted board still waiting to be used and wanted to cross it off my list so here goes. I started...
Duane Allman
I've been tearing through the artwork this week and thought I'd take a break, so spent most of the day out in the studio catching up on the novel...
The H1 2023 Artistic Actuary Poll
Right, I've built up enough material to put out another poll on which of my paintings people people like. As usual, it only takes a couple of...
Towards Third Court, Christ’s College, Cambridge
About a week ago, when I painted Garrow Farm in coloured pencils, I discovered the joy of jamming along to music with coloured pencils and just...
Ancient Sorceries
I fancied giving the oil pastels another go today. It feels like too long since I came up with a decent oil pastel painting. I looked through my...
I Can Read Your Mind
So I had the first chance in a while to do some undisturbed painting in the studio. Well I say that but in reality I only started at 2pm and had...
Capturing Light, Catherine Beale – Book Review
What with all the doors and windows in the house being replaced this week, I've had too much on to be thinking about to be able to do any painting....
Jennifer Evie
I wasn’t in the mood for a long day of painting today, so decided to have another go at a figure drawing with the inktense pencils while the...
Garrow Farm, Bodmin Moor
So here's the painting I've been busy with over the last couple of days. It's a deserted farmhouse on a Bodmin Moor, a scene that's been in my...
Coloured Pencil Full Swatch
It's all go at the moment. We've got someone coming in on Tuesday to replace all the doors and windows in the house, which means not much time for...
A Bit Of Wood
So what have you painted today? A tree. What have you called it? A Bit Of Wood - it's the name of an Alg…. Is it an interesting composition?...